Great for fans of Susan Mallery, Bella Andre, and Marie Force. All I Want for Christmas is a small town, feel-good romance, the first in a four-book series.Nothing is more precious to Ryan Chase than his five-year-old daughter, Maggie. She's the reason the widower moved to Halo Island in the first place—to get away from his hectic, work-all-hours job and spend more time with her. Ryan will do anything to make sure Maggie is protected from hurt, which means no attachments to anyone ...

How can she resist?After a painful breakup and the loss of her job, Cinnamon Smith feels battered and bruised. The only place to go is her best friend Fran’s bed-and-breakfast in the small coastal town of Dunlin Shores, Oregon. The first person she meets on her arrival is Nick Mahoney, Fran’s handyman. Cinnamon’s attraction to Nick is immediate, and the feeling is definitely mutual.But Cinnamon has spent years working toward a certain kind of life,...

Great for fans of Susan Mallery, Bella Andre, and Marie Force. The Pilot's Woman is a small island, feel-good romance, the second in a four-book series.It's déjà vu when Liza Miller boards D.J. Hatcher's seaplane for Halo Island. How could she forget the handsome pilot who whisked her away from heartbreak three years ago? Clearly, he hasn't forgotten her. But D.J. has been burned by love, and Liza isn't ready to risk her heart again.The last time they met, Liza was a jilted...

Great for fans of Susan Mallery, Bella Andre, and Marie Force. Ooh, Baby! is a small island, feel-good romance, the third in a four-book series.Running a business and being a temporary mommy to her sister's seven-month-old are two full-time jobs. The last thing Lily Gleason needs is to be audited! Then the Halo Island jewelry designer meets her new accountant. Honorable, straightforward Carter Boyle is a man who inspires trust. He's also sexy, single… and Lily is thrilled that he's...

Great for fans of Susan Mallery, Bella Andre, and Marie Force. The One I Love is a small island, feel-good romance, the fourth in a four-book series.Emmy came to Halo Island to make a fresh start. But what her rebellious son Jesse really needs is a man in his life. Someone he can look up to and trust. Someone who’ll stick around. Strong and dependable as he is, rugged contractor Mac is not that man. After raising his two younger brothers, Mac is finally ready to go after his own dr...

A cowboy for Christmas?Montana Mistletoe Baby by Patricia JohnsBarrie Jones needs a Christmas miracle. Five months pregnant, she's already the talk of Hope, Montana. And now her ex, retired bull rider Curtis Porter, wants to sell the building that houses Barrie's veterinary practice—putting her out of business. Barrie should know better than to give him a second chance, but Curtis seems different… He's talking about...

Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilém Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He reconsiders familiar actions—from speaking and painting to smoking and telephoning—in terms of particular movement, opening a surprising new perspective on the ways we share and preserve meaning. A gesture may or may not be linked to specialized apparatus, though its form crucially affects the person...

In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilém Flusser asks what will happen to thought and communication as written communication gives way, inevitably, to digital expression. In his introduction, Flusser proposes that writing does not, in fact, have a future because everything that is now conveyed in writing—and much that cannot be—can be recorded and transmitted by other means.Confirming Flusser’s status as a theori...

Great for fans of Susan Mallery, Cindy Kirk, Bella Andre, and Marie Force. Dream a Little Dream is a small town, feel-good romance, the first in a series.After high school, Lauren Wilson headed to culinary school to become a chef. When that didn’t pan out, she buried her dream of cooking and worked as a restaurant manager far away from Miracle Falls. Now she’s moved home to start fresh.With a string of failed relationships and a divorce behind him, attorney...

In this thought-provoking book Lambert Wiesing asks simply: What is luxury? Drawing on a fascinating range of examples, he argues that luxury is an aesthetic experience. Unlike experience gained via the senses, such as seeing, hearing or tasting, he argues that luxury is achieved by possessing something – an aspect of philosophy that has been largely neglected. As such, luxury becomes a gesture of individual defiance and a refusal to conform to social expectations of restraint. An increasi...

Lambert Wiesing's The Philosophy of Perception challenges current theories of perception. Instead of attempting to understand how a subject perceives the world, Wiesing starts by taking perception to be real. He then asks what this reality means for a subject. In his original approach, the question of how human perception is possible is displaced by questions about what perception obliges us to be and do. He argues that perception requires us to be embodied, to be visible, and to ...

Now available in English for the first time, The Visibility of the Image explores the development of an influential aesthetic tradition through the work of six figures. Analysing their contribution to the progress of formal aesthetics, from its origins in Germany in the 1880s to semiotic interpretations in America a century later, the six chapters cover:Robert Zimmermann (1824-1898), the first to separate aesthetics and metaphysics and approach aesthetics ...